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A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of John R. Jewitt [microform] : only survivor of the ship Boston during a captivity of nearly three years among the Indians of Nootka Sound : with an account of the manners, mode of living and religious opinions of the natives

by: Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821; Alsop, Richard, 1761-1815

Publication date: 1816

Topics: Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821, Jewitt, John R. (John Rodgers), 1783-1821, Boston (Ship), Boston (Navire), Indians of North America, Nootka Indians, Indiens, Nootka (Indiens)

Publisher: Middletown [Conn.?] : Printed by Loomis, and Richards and reprinted by Rowland Hurst, Wakefield, and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown ... London ...

Collection: university_of_alberta_libraries_microfilm; university_of_alberta_libraries; toronto; microfilm; additional_collections

Contributor: Canadiana.org

Language: English

Item Size: 405.1M

"Written by ... Richard Alsop ... [who] drew from Jewitt his story during repeated interviews"--Historical magazine, v. 4, 1860, p. 91

"'Dire scenes of horror on a savage shore, In which, a witness sad, a part I bore.'"

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the Library of the Public Archives of Canada

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